Lawrence Berkeley Lab issues wish-list for second campus site

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory released today the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for their proposed second campus. The second campus, announced in September, is designed to consolidate four remote sites and allow for future growth for LBL, which is constrained by the physical limits of its main site in the Berkeley hills above the university. LBL is one of the Department of Energy’s national labs, and is managed by the University of California.

“Putting all those scattered facilities on one site will bring efficiencies,” said Sam Chapman, LBL’s manager for state and community relations. Currently, in addition to the main site, LBL has the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Oakland and parts of the Life Sciences Division in West Berkeley. Continue reading…